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I offer condolences to Stephen and family. On 26/09/12 4:59 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > With inevitable sadness, yesterday afternoon my mother, > Barbara Mioore Vincent died at the age of 96. During the past few years, among > many of us here, she became known for her proclivity to dictate her own > poems, often improvising freely off the work of modernist writers such > as Joanne Kyger, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Levertov, Gertrude Stein and others whose > works I would read to her.Much of her out put was published, most recently a > group of poems in Eaoghıs issue on aging, edited by Susan Schultz. For most of > her public life, she was a politician, City planner, and environmental > activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, including being a founding member of > Save the Bay. On the Richmond shoreline, the Barbara and Jay Vincent Park , > now part of the Federal Park System, is a commemoration of the efforts of my > parents to preserve the Bay from industrial destruction. A graduate and > veteran of many of this countryıs 20th century natural, human and economic > upheavals, she had an incorrigible sense of honesty, bravery and sometimes > humor in confronting the reality of the various hands into which she was > dealt. As not long after my father dieed: January will open the horrible > threat. February will break off a few of the wicked. March the winds will > blow and frighten everybody. April will break my heart. May will come > whisking through. June is hard to decipher. July will never stop to say > hello. August is jolly and happy for people like me. September is hard to > take. October is full of joy for very few. November marks the worst that > could ever come. December for many itıs love and joy But not for > me. Barabara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012 > This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose or use the information contained within. If you have received it in error please return it to the sender via reply e-mail and delete any record of it from your system. The information contained within is not the opinion of Edith Cowan University in general and the University accepts no liability for the accuracy of the information provided. CRICOS IPC 00279B